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THE PARADOX OF THE PILL: HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS.

The twentieth century saw dramatic increases in nonmarital births, concentrated heavily among poor and working‐class women. In this paper, we investigate whether the oral contraceptive pill played a causal role in the rise of nonmarital births. Exploiting exogenous variation in laws governing access...

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Published in:Economic Inquiry Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 813 - 832
Main Authors: Beauchamp, Andrew, Pakaluk, Catherine R.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2019
Subjects:
Births to unmarried women
Poor women
Working class women
Minority women
Oral contraceptives
Twentieth century
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